The advice you have gotten thus far is good. To get your foot in the door, I would suggest you find a project you find personally appealing in the open-source community. Become familiar with its use and operation. The next step would be to become familiar with CVS or Subversion (SVN). Seeing as you are coming from a more Microsoft background you will be familiar with source safe (most likely), CVS and subversion are simply open source, source control system. You will want to become familiar with their basic use.
Once you have accomplished those basic tasks, download the source of your new found project to your PC with your source control client (each project will have these procedures documented on their web pages, somewhere). Then become familiar with their architecture. Read through the routines, and their data structures. Once you have a basic understanding of the projects source, you will want to join mailing lists, look at their bug tracking software, and forums. Track down bugs in the projects software and solve them. Using your knowledge of CVS and/or SVN (and hopefully the diff command), you will be able to produce usable patches, or revisions to code that you can submit to primary developers.
Once you become a valued member of the bug tracking and eliminating community, you may want to begin tackling the projects TODO list for new releases. Adding new features to the product. The rest of the terms you bring up (and many that you didn't) will become more familiar to you as you become more involved in a projects build process.
Those of us who would like to see the monopoly dismantled, the price fixing stopped, and the strong arming against the world stopped. versus the people who are for the riaa. and the riaa themselves. Seems pretty clear cut to me?
stay off my side? I agree with that LimeWire is saying, and I like LimeWire, but their business model is based off illegally downloading music, for the most part. I don't feel like I want this business model fighting fo rour rights. It doesn't give legitimacy to our side.
This is certianly a possibility. It's going to be a wait-and-see point. But historically speaking, intel chips have by no means been cheaper than AMD.
Their overhead cost may be cheaper, but their markup is defiantely higher.
That ultimately depends on the size of your Server environment. This one chip versus 1 of equal stature from AMD may save a fraction of a penny.
In an environment of thousands of servers it may add up, but not in the majority of them.
And in many scenarios, power is not in ITs cost-center. And as an IT manager, if I'm not footing the power bill, I certainly wouldn't consider this chip at a greater expense.
That's just my opinion though.
They may be faster, and they may consume less power, but IT is still about cost. Something tells me, that with this great advancement comes a higher price tag than AMD.
I don't entirely disagree with you on this. Some games are simply meant for adults (AO). I see a flaw in the difference between the M rating (17+) and the AO (18+). This is an assinine difference. I would say either make AO 21+, or make M 18+. There doesn't need to be a differenciation between AO and M as they are defined now. Personally I think once you are an adult, it's your life. (at 18+).
that "The National Institute for Media and the Family" will continue to "fail" the ESRB until is has the kind of control over what people can and can't do inside of videos that THEY want, and not what the population as a whole wants? I don't disagree with ratings on video games, kids shouldn't play GTA (or the like), but I disagree with an independant board of people with very strong ideals, who don't necessarilly coincide with my own, having so much clout in what I do with my free time.
I realize this isn't because they are wonderfully great freedom fighters here to save us from the tierany of corrupt *big business*, regardless it is nice to see a company with backbone. Who, while saving themselves a few dollars, is willing to stand up for consumer who pays hard earned dollars for a service they expect free and fair use of.
In my day! We got bad lower backs by carrying 50lbs of text books on our backs and we liked it! What kind of character building exercises will these kids needs to go through these days?
*sarcastically yours*
Riiiiiight... You're obviously not a southpark fan either. That's how they say it in the episode. Christ and I'm the original poster!@ I hate when I have to explain jokes it makes them less funny.
Pioneer's digital mixing equipment generally doesn't come with a cheap price tag. 512 might be a not so generous estimate with the cheap costs of DDR these days. It wouldn't be unreasonable to see the buffer even as high as a gig or two.
From Pioneer it isn't unreasonable to purchase a turntable for $2000 or more.
that I noticed my customer was a 12 foot tall monster from the crustacious period! He looked me right in the eye and said, 'My quote for the dell says about Tree-Fitty!' and I said GOD DAMN YOU LOCHNESS MONSTER!
You're correct. I should have mentioned that but really I do refere more to the accent than anything else. Speaking the same language and comprehension between two people are not mutually exclusive.
An increase in stock should show pretty solid motive. The knew accusing IBM and Linux would have this effect. In the world of media any press is good press. SCO was on it's last leg and the officers of the company needed something to seal assets. Many of them have made future sell plans of their stock, and my guess is so they can exit stage right. If everyone on wallstreet is so savvy for this kind of thing, well I will take anyones money for my stock in enron.
Dell has recently made the smart move and relocated all their business class call centers back in to the US from India. The bottom line comes from Pleasing customers. Cutting costs is not the only way to generate revenue. I expect to see more companies follow suit, atleast when outsourcing to non-english speaking countries.
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Sam Waterston? I would also like to buy some Robot insurance. Robots are made of metal and they are strong.
The advice you have gotten thus far is good. To get your foot in the door, I would suggest you find a project you find personally appealing in the open-source community. Become familiar with its use and operation. The next step would be to become familiar with CVS or Subversion (SVN). Seeing as you are coming from a more Microsoft background you will be familiar with source safe (most likely), CVS and subversion are simply open source, source control system. You will want to become familiar with their basic use.
Once you have accomplished those basic tasks, download the source of your new found project to your PC with your source control client (each project will have these procedures documented on their web pages, somewhere). Then become familiar with their architecture. Read through the routines, and their data structures. Once you have a basic understanding of the projects source, you will want to join mailing lists, look at their bug tracking software, and forums. Track down bugs in the projects software and solve them. Using your knowledge of CVS and/or SVN (and hopefully the diff command), you will be able to produce usable patches, or revisions to code that you can submit to primary developers.
Once you become a valued member of the bug tracking and eliminating community, you may want to begin tackling the projects TODO list for new releases. Adding new features to the product. The rest of the terms you bring up (and many that you didn't) will become more familiar to you as you become more involved in a projects build process.
Those of us who would like to see the monopoly dismantled, the price fixing stopped, and the strong arming against the world stopped. versus the people who are for the riaa. and the riaa themselves. Seems pretty clear cut to me?
stay off my side? I agree with that LimeWire is saying, and I like LimeWire, but their business model is based off illegally downloading music, for the most part. I don't feel like I want this business model fighting fo rour rights. It doesn't give legitimacy to our side.
This is certianly a possibility. It's going to be a wait-and-see point. But historically speaking, intel chips have by no means been cheaper than AMD. Their overhead cost may be cheaper, but their markup is defiantely higher.
That ultimately depends on the size of your Server environment. This one chip versus 1 of equal stature from AMD may save a fraction of a penny. In an environment of thousands of servers it may add up, but not in the majority of them. And in many scenarios, power is not in ITs cost-center. And as an IT manager, if I'm not footing the power bill, I certainly wouldn't consider this chip at a greater expense. That's just my opinion though.
They may be faster, and they may consume less power, but IT is still about cost. Something tells me, that with this great advancement comes a higher price tag than AMD.
Who cares is Intel is a few mips faster?
I don't entirely disagree with you on this. Some games are simply meant for adults (AO). I see a flaw in the difference between the M rating (17+) and the AO (18+). This is an assinine difference. I would say either make AO 21+, or make M 18+. There doesn't need to be a differenciation between AO and M as they are defined now. Personally I think once you are an adult, it's your life. (at 18+).
that "The National Institute for Media and the Family" will continue to "fail" the ESRB until is has the kind of control over what people can and can't do inside of videos that THEY want, and not what the population as a whole wants? I don't disagree with ratings on video games, kids shouldn't play GTA (or the like), but I disagree with an independant board of people with very strong ideals, who don't necessarilly coincide with my own, having so much clout in what I do with my free time.
I realize this isn't because they are wonderfully great freedom fighters here to save us from the tierany of corrupt *big business*, regardless it is nice to see a company with backbone. Who, while saving themselves a few dollars, is willing to stand up for consumer who pays hard earned dollars for a service they expect free and fair use of.
Flamebait?! It's supposed to be sarcasm :) Sheesh people are harsh.
I was certain the, honorable and the trusted SCO Software would come out ahead of those socialist pirates known as Linux users. Who's with me?
In my day! We got bad lower backs by carrying 50lbs of text books on our backs and we liked it! What kind of character building exercises will these kids needs to go through these days? *sarcastically yours*
Riiiiiight... You're obviously not a southpark fan either. That's how they say it in the episode. Christ and I'm the original poster!@ I hate when I have to explain jokes it makes them less funny.
Pioneer's digital mixing equipment generally doesn't come with a cheap price tag. 512 might be a not so generous estimate with the cheap costs of DDR these days. It wouldn't be unreasonable to see the buffer even as high as a gig or two. From Pioneer it isn't unreasonable to purchase a turntable for $2000 or more.
Obviously you're not a southpark fan buddy.
And with this server we are able to kick out photoshopped images at an ALARMING rate!
that I noticed my customer was a 12 foot tall monster from the crustacious period! He looked me right in the eye and said, 'My quote for the dell says about Tree-Fitty!' and I said GOD DAMN YOU LOCHNESS MONSTER!
I like to think of those sites more as "pleasant suprises!"
Or maybe miss type a friends email address domain.... wildcards in MX resource recods? All mistyped mail goes to the man... so be careful!
I would like to propose a new "IN GEEK" resource record for DNS. So I can find myself on the internet easier!
You're correct. I should have mentioned that but really I do refere more to the accent than anything else. Speaking the same language and comprehension between two people are not mutually exclusive.
An increase in stock should show pretty solid motive. The knew accusing IBM and Linux would have this effect. In the world of media any press is good press. SCO was on it's last leg and the officers of the company needed something to seal assets. Many of them have made future sell plans of their stock, and my guess is so they can exit stage right. If everyone on wallstreet is so savvy for this kind of thing, well I will take anyones money for my stock in enron.
Dell has recently made the smart move and relocated all their business class call centers back in to the US from India. The bottom line comes from Pleasing customers. Cutting costs is not the only way to generate revenue. I expect to see more companies follow suit, atleast when outsourcing to non-english speaking countries.
why is this almost identicle to his previous post regarding.... NetWare is dying.